Quality Evaluation of Scientific Research Based on Relative Benchmarking

Abstract:

The selection and learning of suitable relative scientific research benchmarking is beneficial for research institutions to compensate for the negative effects caused by the current quantitative scientific research evaluation. This research takes a page from benchmarking， quality evaluation， and data envelopment analysis method and constructs a relatively benchmark-based scientific research quality evaluation system from the perspective of efficiency and quality， which includes evaluation objectives， criteria， ideas， and methods. This research takes 31 typical 985 universities in mainland China as the target， and diagnoses and analyzes the scientific research quality problems of a university on the base of the evaluation of research efficiency. In addition， the paper selects relative scientific research benchmarks for learning， and gives suggestions for improving scientific research quality. This study found that： learning relative benchmarking is helpful to overcome the limitations of traditional benchmarking management； the research quality evaluation method based on relative benchmarking provides useful insights for universities to effectively identify and improve research quality issues.

Key words:relative benchmarking;scientific research quality;quality evaluation;data envelopment analysis(DEA)